The ease of doing business is a driver of the local economy, allowing the entry of new companies that generate income to their owners, local and national government for the taxes generated, and which in turn impact positively on consumers, generating competition, Innovation and better end products. The research seeks to identify the facility that exists in the city of Arequipa to do business or formalize the entry of a new company into the market. It was developed under a non-experimental study with cross-sectional design and quantitative descriptive scope. The Doing Business methodology, an instrument developed by the World Bank, was used to measure the ease of doing business in the city of Arequipa and to compare the results with the city of Lima and cities in Spain and Colombia.
The collection of information was obtained from primary sources through structured interviews, and secondary to the review of established procedures in government institutions; With the aim of identifying gaps between what happens in practice and what the government expects from the process of opening companies. The results of this research indicate that doing business in the city of Arequipa is easier when comparing management with the city of Lima, the time it takes to start a business in Arequipa is 411 days and the cost involved amounts to Ten thousand five hundred twenty-four Nuevos Soles. There are important technological development and process gaps that must be developed to make the procedure of doing business comparable with cities in Colombia and Spain